This week we will work on unpacking the remainder of Chapter Three, "Doing Justice." There will be a short test on terms and key ideas from this chapter on Thursday, Day 1. On Thursday, your Praxis group Proposal for Contacts is due. Remember this a proposal - Not all contacts need be in place. On Friday, I will outline Chapter 2 of our text. Monday - Exposition of your notes pages 88 - 96
This is a short week for instruction. We will focus on understading the importance of one's worldview, culture, and the circle of faith in action. Due Dates and Assignments Week of 2/20 Monday - Off Tuesday - In class - DUE: Annotated Bibliography submitted through Noodle Tools preferred OR Google Docs Or Word attachemant to my email msims@merion-mercy.com Wednesday - Theology Department Planning day In-class assignment Assignment: Using annotated notes as a model , you will read and annotate pages 88 - 96 by Thursday, Feb. 23rd. Brainstorm question #16 (p. 96) with regard to your Praxis Project Thursday - Unpacking Chapter 3/ Praxis groups Friday - Unpacking Chapter 3/Praxis groups What is a WorldView?
Western versus Indigenous worldview - Thoughts?
Thursday
Worldview (continued) & Part I of Analysis (beginning of your notes)
Experience
Culture - refer to notes - Key definition
Blind Spots (social commentary - "21st Century Digital Boy" by Bad Religion)
We discussed Jesus' Mission Statement - Luke 4: 16- 21 (Isaiah 58: 5-12) as well as Matthew Chapters 5, 6 & 7 (Sermon on the Mount) & Luke Chapter 6 (Sermon on the Plain). These are some main examples. The Gospel of Matthew(6:25-34) offers something that many Buddhist fins akin to Siddhartha Gautama
Matthew 6:25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. The Gospel of John offers some poignant insights too. For example, John 8: 1- 11- Woman caught in Adultry
*Notice the format in describing your source. Three short paragraphs. The first is a brief synopsis of the source (book, article, etc...) . With a book, you are obviously not reading the entire book before submitting the bibliography, but you should skim much of it.
Second, a brief paragraph focusing on why you find this source to be important for your work. The third brief paragraph should state in a couple of sentences what chapter or part of the source you will employ in your project.
The above video is geared toward a formal research paper but should help clarify what an annotated bibliography is.
Reading - Please read pages 77 - 81.
Wednesday through Friday - We will begin "unpacking " Chapter 3 of Text pages 77 - 107. Key to the Praxis Project and our course of study is "The Circle of Faith-in-Action" found on page 78. This is a similar "circle," one that touches upon the reflective nature of "doing justice."
Understanding our individual worldview is very important in this course AND life. It will change depending upon our experiences and processing of those experiences.
Assignment: Read pages 77 -87
Please be prepared by the end of the week to discuss the questions in section "D" page 81. I will be distributing a journal for you to respond to these questions.
Wednesday/Thursday - Annotated notes will be distributed for pages 78 - 83. Assignment: Using these notes as a model for annotation, you will read and annotate pages 88 - 96 by Thursday, Feb. 23rd. Brainstorm question #16 (p. 96) with regard to your Praxis Project
Rerum novarum (from its first two words, Latin for "of revolutionary change" [n1]), or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on 15 May 1891
We will continue to view selections from "Citizen King" and discuss the implications of Dr. King's message for us today. We will also gather in Praxis groups for the distribution of topics. This is how I see our week: Monday Assigning of Praxis Project topic "Citizen King" Emphasis on Dr. King's Nobel Prize Speech and the struggle within the Civil Rights movement to champion voting rights. King's "move to the North" Nobel Prize Sppech:http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1853
Tuesday Praxis Group "Citizen King" - working toward non-violence and addressing the War in Vietnam & Poverty Selection of "Beyond Vietnam" or "A Time to Break the Silence"
Wednesday - Conclusion of our viewing of "Citizen King"
Review of Chapter One and Questions from King's sermons.
Nina Simone (1968) -"Why" (The King of Love is Dead)
U2 (1984) "Pride" (In the Name of Love)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test #1 Review of Chapter 1 of text, notes, But if Not Sermon, and "Citizen King" (see discussion handout) 25 objective questions (True/False, Mutiple Choice, Matching) 3 Short Answer Essay related to "Citizen King" Objective portion - Terms to know: compassion, enlightend sef-interest, individualism, hope, human dignity, free will, Original sin, personal sin, justice, grace, kingdom of God, prophet (role of), social justice defintion (notes), Jesus' Mission Statement (what Gospel & what are we called to do), "If Faith" v. "Though Faith" Short Answer portion (Minimum 5 sentences each): Why was non-violence so important to Dr. King? What did Dr. King understand "power" to mean? What did Dr. King uncover about poverty and racism when he went to the North, namely, Chicago? Extra Credit:What did Dr. King uncover about the reality of war (Vietnam War) and its connection to racism and poverty? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
